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I mean, he’s supposed to be this all powerful being, but he’s portrayed as this sad dweeb who’s just trying his best to reconnect with his daughter after straining their relationship with a bitch wife who’s keeping them from just being happy, he’s Viv’s favorite and— Oh my god she just made Stolas again

As a child, her family stole her bodily autonomy and arranged to marry her to Stolas, whom she never loved. Stella had sex, got pregnant, and gave birth to Octavia at a young age. Her family viewed her as an incubator, to produce an heir for a prince, and to be a mother. They forbade Stella from aspiring to be more and centered her worth around her roles as a wife and mother.

However, Vivziepop wants you to despise Stella by turning her into an evil, one-dimensional woman who has abused Stolas. She exists solely to make another character "sympathetic,” and all of her suffering is ignored.

CONTENT WARNING: Racism, Aphobia.

Now that I created a blog specifically for stuff like this, It's time for the dive.

Alastor is a character that resonates with me, because this guy is supposed to represent me and my people (aspec/aroace community) and I liked his pilot personality. (That went to shit)

This man got so many issues, that i have to take the pen myself and scribble what Vivzie has wrote. So, Let's start, shall we?

THE DESIGN

The first time I saw the Hazbin pilot, I got confused about what Alastor was supposed to be. I thought he was just a grey human wearing some kind of animal ears until the fandom said he is a deer.

A deer. Let that sink in.

(Images for comparsion)

As someone passionate about the arts, this upset me. Sure, I haven't been to art school, but even I know you need to put the backstory and features in mind when designing a character.

Character design is NOT throwing things at the wall and seeing which sticks. It needs actual critical thinking. If your audience is confused about your character's species, it's time to go back to the drawing table (unless you have a reason for making it mysterious.)

Second, the overabundance of red is awful in terms of color theory. This guy is in Hell, which is also red, causing an eyesore. I got a headache when trying to focus on him on a red background. And also, colors have meaning. People associate red with danger, so the fact he even managed to get victims to kill makes me puzzled.

Also, the fact he's supposed to be mixed/black makes this design even worse. Why is he grey instead of brown, perhaps? Vivzie has a pattern of making POCs grey-skinned, which is, again, awful.

I think Vivzie only made him a POC due to the voodoo issue. I mean, just remove the symbols and you are done. But nah the symbols are too "aesthetic" to remove. So gotta change his race.

She could have used another symbols, like THIS for example:

Since, you know, he's the "Radio Demon"?

THE BACKSTORY

Ok, this where I'm very confused.

Alastor is a radio host, and also a serial killer. He was born in the USA, got killed by a deer hunter by mistake, and lived in the 1920's.

This is what I gathered from being a superfan back then, and it sounds unorganised/cluttered. And the years he lived in make his design even worse. (Again! His clothing doesn't speak the 1920s!)

The fact he's from an old era, and yet speaks in modern slang is weird. He's supposed to hate anything modern, and yet he does it anyway? His saying "fuck" multiple times is so out of character for him. I guess the "If made by Vivziepop" memes have some truth.

Putting the fact he's mixed, makes the backstory more confusing. How did he manage to be a popular radio host at the time before the civil rights movement became a thing? He will have been put down like the rest of the POCs in America. Either that he's white-passing, or it's VERY difficult. Adding the fact he's a serial killer makes me think how the cops didn't get to him (the mere fact he's black should have got him questioned in 1920s America)

Now, for his identity. I'm mad he's the only aroace character in the sea of gays and bisexuals. (I'm not saying gay men and bisexual people should not have representation. I have to say that due to tumblr's piss poor reading comprehersion)

which made me go through on why Vivzie made him aroace in the first place. I don't know if this is true, but I heard she made him aroace because "he only loves himself"

Um. Here we go again with allos assuming we are non-empathic psychopaths for our lack of sexual or/and romantic attraction. I hope that's not true at all, but knowing Vivzie's past, I wouldn't be surprised.

A lot of the characters in these shows not having ears does bother me, but I don't think imps look better with them personally. The hair -> horns design thing they have gets broken up by an ear and it throws everything off for me. Maybe someone else has a better take on it.

Vaggie and Carmilla look so much better with ears though imo. Even just the faint implication of ears for Vaggie works wonders. I could take or leave charlie.

My first attempt at an Alastor redesign

Again, as with my redesign of Alastor’s demon form, this is definitely NOT the most creative. A million people have probably done this exact design already.

So here Viv's mod on patreon saying that fangames aren't cool

Now here is the discussion that came after this announcement

Some were even worried about Viv seeing the chat and blacklisting em.